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We are so going to get stuck in the courts over this in Mississippi on 42 and 42A.

First by 52% to 48%, the sate voters voted against an amendment to the constitution on education funding.

But not content, they also added another vote to the ballot were you could vote for 42 or 42A Prop 42, amends the constitution by granting the state chancery courts the ability to determine whether the legislature is indeed 'adequately' funding education. Prop 42A is the same as 42 except the courts are granted no power.

So in this second ballot vote, Prop 42 seems to have passed 58% to 42%.

11
As blindingly stupid as anything that comes from the self-appointed we're-smarter-than-you media.
May wild dogs dig up their corpses.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 04, 2015 06:25 AM (erRNA)

12
A good election for the right: Bevin won, the San Francisco felon masquerading as a Sheriff lost, and (love this!) Bloomberg lost his attempt to move gun restrictions (in the form of a state rep. election) in Virginia.

Posted by: MTF at November 04, 2015 06:25 AM (TcePY)

13
Well, some small victories for sanity as the Titanic slips below the waves.

I'd like to ask any members of the Horde who pray to send one up for me. I won't go into the details, but I need strength to deal with a very stressful situation and discernment to find a way out. Many thanks.

17
I see where Governor Hogan (R) has issued a statement that former Governor Martin O'Malley (D) was cooking the books on Maryland student test results by excluding special needs and other population groups from the aggregate test results.

20
Once again they got all of the polls leading up to last nights election wrong here in Kentucky. They did the same thing last year and it is a direct result of only conducting polling in Lexington and Louisville. They did it to themselves yet again, oversampling Democrats in those two Cities.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at November 04, 2015 06:40 AM (iONHu)

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Kentucky Democrats, all sixteen of them, are sad-faced, and Bevins made a good speech: "Tonight is a good night for Republicans, and I'm happy about that, but it is a really good night for Conservatives!"

Gee whiz, and Yertle had to cheer that little sentiment. Must have hurt.

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A 23-year-old man was killed in Southwest Baltimore Tuesday night,
police said, less than a half-mile from a public safety meeting hosted
by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Commissioner Kevin Davis. The
killing was one of two shootings in the district and three citywide
Tuesday night. The homicide

I think people are outright lying to pollsters. Who wants to be called a racist, ignorant hillbilly, and it is kind of fun to misdirect the smug bastards. The voting public in the UK did it with gusto and shocked the pols. If you tell the truth the PC police will get you so you lie or clam up. This dynamic in a population is what preference cascades are built on. I suspect Merkel is going to get hit with it in the next elections.

Oh yeah, Jim Kinney. Gonna bring 'universal' pre-kindergarten to the poorest of the top 10 cities in the usa.

Just like New York Cities new mayor.

Posted by: se pa moron at November 04, 2015 07:00 AM (7v/r5)

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If any of you are interested and in the East Texas region, there is an estate sale in Carthage with an interesting newspaper for sale. I am in no way involved in the sale, other than being on the sale admin contractor's mailing list.

http://www.texasproonthego.com/pages/PA220037%20(1)_JPG.htm

Posted by: Lumpy at November 04, 2015 07:00 AM (y/bte)

46
Regarding election results. Michigan voters recently denied a referendum to raise taxes and auto registration fees (and sundry other complicated schemes included in the related bills) by 80 / 20. This was to 'fix roads' although the money all went into the general fund. So what legislation have Our Betters come up with? I pause for your educated guesses. I should add that both state houses are GOP majority and GOP Governor .

Her term is two more years. God only knows what the electorate will look like then, eh?

(The Chancellor is not directly elected by the people, but by the Bundestag. If you knew that already, please disregard this comment. Seems to be a number of her party members publicly disagreeing with her, at least in the Bavarian CSU.)

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Michigan legislators, lead by GOP, propose additional 7+ cents added to gas tax(already in top five in nation) and 40% rise in vehicle registration fees. More details of the proposal to be unveiled to us plebes soon. And this is after Gov decides to send $600 million to Detroit schools. Because that Black Hole of Calcutta hasn't sucked away enough of our money. At least we have the Lions to cheer for! Oh wait...

I am having a case of Bitter, much for breakfast

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at November 04, 2015 07:11 AM (PHxng)

59
Brian Kilmeade is just hopelessly stupid. He uses up his prepared one-liners in the first half-hour, then drools.Yet probably has three houses and four cars.

Man, I took the wrong classes and kissed the wrong *sses.

Posted by: a dot at November 04, 2015 07:11 AM (yxw0r)

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>>>>I think people are outright lying to pollsters. Who wants to be called a
racist, ignorant hillbilly, and it is kind of fun to misdirect the smug
bastards. The voting public in the UK did it with gusto and shocked the
pols. If you tell the truth the PC police will get you so you lie or
clam up. This dynamic in a population is what preference cascades are
built on. I suspect Merkel is going to get hit with it in the next
elections....I suspect that sort of Political Sophistry is beyond the abilities of the typical Drunken Hillbilly that I encounter here in Kentucky.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at November 04, 2015 07:12 AM (iONHu)

66
52 I suspect Merkel is going to get hit with it in the next elections.

Her term is two more years. God only knows what the electorate will look like then, eh?

(The Chancellor is not directly elected by the people, but by the Bundestag. If you knew that already, please disregard this comment. Seems to be a number of her party members publicly disagreeing with her, at least in the Bavarian CSU.)

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My Overall point about Michigan shenanigans is: when you hear the talking point about how great it is that GOP controls more state and local levels - remember quality of GOP always is superior to quantity.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at November 04, 2015 07:18 AM (PHxng)

70Brian Kilmeade is just hopelessly stupid. He uses up his prepared
one-liners in the first half-hour, then drools.Yet probably has three
houses and four cars.

Our local talk radio station dropped Beck and put on Kilmeade's radio show for three hours.

It's the Fox Party Line, football, and drooling.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at November 04, 2015 07:20 AM (oVJmc)

71
Howard Carter told the BBC all about it, in the early 30's. I bought an LP of the interview from a library clearance sale about 30 years ago. Now they're doing historical re-enactments on pay channels of what he may have thought or said; all you have to do is drop the needle, and you can hear his own words in his own voice, pops and hollows of short-wave included. Makes the gap from now to Carter seem as great as the gap from him back to Tut. He opened that tomb the year my father was born.

I am not a believer in pharaoh's curse, but when he gets to the part about watching the still-fresh garland of flowers wither before his eyes, the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.

Oh, and it turns out? Dinosaurs in Alberta mos def had feathers. Just found one with its tail-plumage still on. AOP sez, good eating if you fix 'em right. Pterodactyl Ptoutine.

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I think people are outright lying to pollsters. Who wants to be called a racist, ignorant hillbilly, and it is kind of fun to misdirect the smug bastards. The voting public in the UK did it with gusto and shocked the pols. If you tell the truth the PC police will get you so you lie or clam up. This dynamic in a population is what preference cascades are built on. I suspect Merkel is going to get hit with it in the next elections.
Posted by: Lester
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When we are numerous enough, we will no longer have to live in fear.

We will post pictures of ourselves on twitter, wearing shirts and holding signs that proudly state, "This is what a moron looks like!"

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at November 04, 2015 07:26 AM (GMIOa)

76
Congratulations to Matt Bevin, a man thoroughly hated by the GOP Establishment. The GOP tried to Cuccinelli him... throw the seat to a Democrat rather than let an outsider win. They failed. Failure is a good look for them.

77
Now Bevin needs to build a wall to keep Mitch McConnell from getting back into the state.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at November 04, 2015 07:30 AM (oVJmc)

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Hey I will have you know, Kilmeade is now a published authority on Jefferson and the Barbary pirates.

When we had to have the old house taken down, I hired a competent local manic demolition contractor, who has a lot of hard-working gat-toothed ineducables on his crew. We'd pulled the "antiques," but had admitted the big pre-superhet radio in the attic was not repairable. As they pulled it out, my dad told the kids how, as a toddler, he'd lay under the legs of it to bask in the warmth of the tubes.

Ineducable says to my dad, "Bet you heard the first moon shot on this one, hey old timer?" I look at Dad, Dad looks at me. My eyes, I admit it, rolled back quite a waize. Dad says, "Would you believe the first flight across the Atlantic?" Kid's gat-tooth mouth falls open. It was like he'd just picked the flowers in Tut's tomb.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 04, 2015 07:31 AM (xq1UY)

79
"dropped Beck"
Networks pay stations to carry shows in reverse to how successful a show is.
Beck is too successful for most stations. They don't get paid as much and can't charge anymore for commercials.
Beck's show is about 75% commercials.
Just because Beck is mostly correct about world events doesn't make him any less of a huckster. Gold line, safes, shaving enhancer, sponsor this hour, read my new book, see my new show. Tonight I'm going to tell you about and so forth. 10 minutes of content spread out over hours.

Posted by: analysis at November 04, 2015 07:32 AM (I0sxh)

80
So the new gubner and lt. gubner of KY are both Tea Party activists, and proud of it.

hmmmm. Tell me again about the death of the Tea Party, because the voters in KY obviously didn't get the message.

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>>>>So is this indicative of something larger, like statewide dissatisfaction with McConnell?...No. It mostly boiled down to how the Teachers Retirement fund shortfall was going to be addressed and IMO Bevin won on that. Conway wanted to raise taxes and maintain the status quo for Teachers and Bevin wants to move all new Teacher hires to Social Security and a matching 401K retirement. He would also move all State workers into 401k plans for retirement.

I don't think it will happen as Democrats control the House, but it is a start.

I agree with Bevin, it needs to be changed and State employees and Teachers need to be put in the same retirement pool as everyone else.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at November 04, 2015 07:43 AM (iONHu)

92
CNN says the Russian Airbus that crashed the other day had a prior event in which a pilot struck it's tail against the runway while landing in Beirut in 2001. The article goes on to say small cracks can develop as a result of such a strike that can take years or decades to become serious, and then- in an instant - the plane can break up in mid-air. The tail of this plane was found five km away from the remainder of the crash site.

Posted by: MTF at November 04, 2015 07:45 AM (F7lRL)

93
MTF: JAL Flt 123. Aft pressure bulkhead failed after an improper repair. While the plane crashed ashore in the mountains near Mt. Fuji, the vertical tail was found out at sea where the catastrophic decompression occurred.

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at November 04, 2015 07:48 AM (0O7c5)

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Anna - JAL was 7years after the repair - which is the missing info from the CNN story

Posted by: Jean at November 04, 2015 07:51 AM (ztOda)

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Jean, with aircraft it is about flight cycles. How many times was that plane pressurized and depressurized. The 747 in the JAL crash was used like 757s or 717s are used in the US so it had accumulated many flight hours in those seven years.

97
I would hope the maintenance/inspection teams worldwide are pulling aircraft that have had major structural work for a detailed inspection for fatigue and cracks. Personally, I like to see a policy de-rating such craft for passenger service.

Posted by: Jean at November 04, 2015 07:55 AM (ztOda)

98
It was in regular service, the economics dictate it stay in the air. So, while it may have been less than the JAL bird, the pitch count caught up with them. I bet the aircrew didn't even know about the repair.

Posted by: Jean at November 04, 2015 07:57 AM (ztOda)

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Votermom, just seeing your message on Good Reads. So Lauren, Christopher Taylor, V the K, and myself should take a stab at getting noticed?

They are using Gun Safety in the same way that they use "your Christian duty" as a blind for their idiotic beliefs and politics.

A short reading of the comments backs this one up.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 04, 2015 08:04 AM (KUa85)

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59 Brian Kilmeade is just hopelessly stupid. He uses up his prepared one-liners in the first half-hour, then drools.Yet probably has three houses and four cars.

Brian "Next time, take the elevator" Kilmeade. Unbelievable that this idjit has the job he has.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 04, 2015 08:05 AM (HMt16)

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This was to 'fix roads' although the money all went into the general fund. So what legislation have Our Betters come up with? I pause for your educated guesses. I should add that both state houses are GOP majority and GOP Governor .

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at November 04, 2015 07:02 AM (PHxng)

Yeah....thats some serious bullshit right there. Im looking for a voting list so I can see who needs to be shown the door. Whats another 7 cent gas tax hike

106
Team Vargas was trolling for cash up here in Falls Church with the message we need to control the rednecks ... earned them a nice FYNQ from me.

Posted by: Jean at November 04, 2015 08:06 AM (ztOda)

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I worked the big Ohio election yesterday. We had a major school levy, city council, Teh Zoo tax. There was a lot of covered-mouth speculation about just what issue was drawing so many voters out, and which ones were the stoners vs which ones the teachers. I noticed in a previous vote, if you get a big rush of business right after 4:20, that's telling you something, dude.

For every full-sleeve-of tats, honestly I actually smelled Patchouli voter -- and there were a great plenty -- there were two or three females in scrubs, tight-lipped in barely contained rage. "All my relatives are for this thing," one of them couldn't help but say. "I am here to cancel them out." You can't comment.

And we a had a Chaldean. Guy had just barely escaped Saddam, said he'd never been allowed to vote in his life until he got here, has put two kids through college, and asked for a paper ballot and "bi-partisan assistance" to make sure he understood the wording of the issue(s) right so he didn't accidentally vote the wrong way. And he shook hands all around, thanking us all for the help, and for ]letting him vote (he is a citizen, and registered; there was no doubt).

I said to my presiding judge, Blue Finger Voter. And she goes huh? So I held up my index finger, and voiced the TV ad that the Kurds bought that one time, Tenk You Ameddica. Oh yeah, she says. That. I put my thumb and (blue) forefinger about a inch apart and said, "We were that close." Dusty moment, there, at the polls.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 04, 2015 08:07 AM (xq1UY)

108
Democrat GOTV people came to the front door twice yesterday trying to get my (registered Democrat) spousal unit to go vote for more evil progressives (hah to them- she's an angry Ted Cruz supporter), as redistricting had endangered a safe Democrat state house seat. I was astounded then (and am still) to see so much money and effort expended in an off-year election, and very impressed with their GOTV data gathering operation.

We are facing that operation on steroids in the upcoming general election. It's daunting.

Btw, the election for two seats (Mercer County, NJ) ended up essentially tied between four candidates. Recounts and court cases are in our immediate future, as Democrats try to find a way to ex post facto steal the election.

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[92]- If so why not at take off rotation. If it was up at cruise and trimmed the tail would of been about as loaded as just sitting idle on the ground. Unless it encountered a gust. Or if a crack started forward of the aft pressure bulkhead and propagated due to altitude pressure cycling.

But going steady at 30K doesn't seem like a point where this would happen. The flight profile does show a sudden short ascent followed by a rapid descent along with a massive deceleration. Catastrophic forward fuselage failure which would result in initial pitch then empennage failure and descent? No, the fuselage would of been found first. I'm leaning towards a gust encounter which initiated an undamped short period which failed the aft fuselage causing the tail to go down first. Being undamped would require a pretty severe failure of the elevator and/or tail.

Posted by: BananaDream at November 04, 2015 08:13 AM (vLk7c)

111Just because Beck is mostly correct about world
events doesn't make him any less of a huckster. Gold line, safes,
shaving enhancer, sponsor this hour, read my new book, see my new show.
Tonight I'm going to tell you about and so forth. 10 minutes of content
spread out over hours.

Posted by: analysis at November 04, 2015 07:32 AM (I0sxh)

Lucky for you then. NPR is all news and music breaks. They only have fund drives a couple times a year.

Um, so how do you pay for the studio, uplink and employee wages, insurance and fees again? The FCC gives them to you? Or does Rainbow Dash also make radio waves as well as farting rainbows and weather?

119
"And we a had a Chaldean. Guy had just barely escaped Saddam, said he'd never been allowed to vote in his life until he got here, has put two kids through college, and asked for a paper ballot and "bi-partisan assistance" to make sure he understood the wording of the issue(s) right so he didn't accidentally vote the wrong way. And he shook hands all around, thanking us all for the help, and for ]letting him vote (he is a citizen, and registered; there was no doubt)."

If all the immigrants we got were like this dude, I won't worry about immigration. In fact, I'd welcome them - they'd outvote our native born idiot libtards.

120
Banana Dream, I think the insidious nature of cracks and fatigue mean that the failure can happen at any time. The 'straw the broke the camels back' might have been on the inbound flight and the cracks took a bit to propagate, link up, and BANG.

You would have to tear down and neutron image every part close to a structural repair to make me happy.

MP4: Pray... strength to deal with a very stressful situation and discernment to find a way out....

Some prayers are easier than others. For things, not so good. For values, always and fervently. God bless our friend and storyteller MP4.

And in this especially you also have my sympathies, as endurance and wisdom to find answers for a difficult and complicated situation have been our need, too, for many years - without finding the answers (thus far), but that's why we ask for the strength.

♰

Prayers for my neighbors, as long as we're on the subject. Their 63yo firstborn is not expected to last the week. Parkinson's & complications, same as my cousin died from lately. These are the greatest neighbors in the world. They will need the strength and peace to deal with this.

122 Team Vargas was trolling for cash up here in Falls Church with the message we need to control the rednecks ... earned them a nice FYNQ from me.

Really?! What a jerk.

I had the volunteer tell me that Vargas has been active in "our" community for over 10 years. I said "Well, I've lived here for 15 and yet I've never heard of him."

Also, almost like magic, I was getting spam email from him via the same outfit that Tom Rust uses to send out his stupid Rust Report crap. As I said...slimy. Plus mailers and door hangers every day, but the people doing the door hangers couldn't (or wouldn't) answer even basic questions about Vargas.

123Watched a brit show called how the other half lives. Sheesh! Those ruskies, nigerians, and the people from the 'stan countries, piss and shit money. All from that nasty stuff, oil, that we in the west are always exploiting them for. lol

This one russian billionaire really wants to be a pop star which is funny.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 04, 2015 08:21 AM (iQIUe)

124
The idea behind not pointing a gun at anything you wouldn't want to shoot is to stay in the habit. You just never do it.

That being said if Cruz was holding the gun with the muzzle pointed at the ground in front of him he would be sweeping the interviewer's feet.

Posted by: freaked at November 04, 2015 08:22 AM (KvWlw)

125
MPPP, I have no wise words to offer that would help you deal with stress. All I can offer is my best wishes and support that you get through whatever you're going through.

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The term you are looking for Jean is micro-fractures. Metal fatigue that starts very very small, but as the plane goes through flight cycles the cracks get bigger with every flex. Until they join to create a big enough crack to induce failure.

DeHavilland Comets and their square windows, the corners turned out to be excellent places for such micro-fractures to start.

The Hawaiian 737 that had part of its upper fuselage rip away. All the flight cycles started to fatigue the metal until failure. Passengers boarding the plane on that last flight noticed a crack.

I'd like to ask any members of the Horde who pray to send one up for me. I won't go into the details, but I need strength to deal with a very stressful situation and discernment to find a way out. Many thanks.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 04, 2015 06:34 AM (X6fMO)

we're here with you
in our thoughts

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 04, 2015 08:27 AM (qCMvj)

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And that sucks because PA was my fallback for when NJ elects the next DEM Governor. The Dems will have been pent up for 8 years by Chrisite and the first things out of the gate will be massive tax hikes and copious gun control laws.

Posted by: Kreplach
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One possibility I've been contemplating would be to learn German,move to PA and join the Amish, though for someone named Kreplach, that could be problematic.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at November 04, 2015 08:28 AM (GMIOa)

137
That being said if Cruz was holding the gun with the muzzle pointed at the ground in front of him he would be sweeping the interviewer's feet.
Posted by: freaked at November 04, 2015 08:22 AM (KvWlw)

I had a torsion bar catastrophicly fail moments after shutting off and exiting the truck, and this after negotiating a mountain pass and miles of national forest logging roads in freezing temps.

Brittle fracture is little understood or expected by the layperson.

Posted by: rebel flounder at November 04, 2015 08:33 AM (3dOE/)

142Once again they got all of the polls leading up to last nights election wrong here in Kentucky.

I think the GOP may have had some sekrit internal polling that showed a different result. At the very last minute, the RNC ponied up some resources for Matt Bevin after trying to Cuccinelli him. Maybe they knew he was going to win and didn't want to look bad for opposing him.

143
That being said if Cruz was holding the gun with the muzzle pointed at the ground in front of him he would be sweeping the interviewer's feet.

I'd rather it be pointed down than pointed up.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 04, 2015 08:33 AM (ksPsw)

144HAHA...one of the comments...No more Polish jokes as they are smarter than our President and congress(and most euro leaders)
Posted by: Doom Rider at November 04, 2015 08:31 AM (ck8TA)

It reminds me of the huge million strong Tea Party event - the depth of patriotism in our country brought me to tears.

America used to lead, and now it's Poland steering us to the truth? Sad days.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 04, 2015 08:34 AM (qCMvj)

145
I once talked with a gun-phobic friend. I put a .38 snub and a tire iron on a coffee table between us. I demonstrated how the unloaded revolver worked, opened the action, and placed it on the table.

"Which of these tools is now more dangerous?"

"The gun."

"Please explain to me how it is that the gun is more dangerous than the tire iron."

146
In little known news, Ohio did pass a new motto. "Ohio! We're 66% dumb as fuck".

Posted by: OP at November 04, 2015 08:34 AM (TzeLs)

147
They're not trying to get the polls right, they're trying to get the voting left.
Posted by: t-bird
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That can be a blunder. Overstating a Dem lead can not only demoralize the right into staying home. It can make the left complacent & they do the same.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at November 04, 2015 08:35 AM (GMIOa)

148
"It took 12 years of living in Maryland for this Wolverine to learn to love living in Ohio."

It took about 12 minutes of being stationed in Maryland for me to reconfirm that my happy ass belongs much further south of the Mason Dixon line.

149I think the GOP may have had some sekrit internal polling that showed a different result. At the very last minute, the RNC ponied up some resources for Matt Bevin after trying to Cuccinelli him. Maybe they knew he was going to win and didn't want to look bad for opposing him.
Posted by: V the K at November 04, 2015 08:33 AM (O7MnT)

153
I don't really understand the PA results. In my county the Republcans won EXCEPT for the top of the ballot with SC judges. WTH?
Was it ads?
Was it Bob Casey robocalling for one of them?
Scratching my head here.

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However, voters not understanding what Leftists do, voted for the bi-partisan state redistricting committee.

--

Is this where Democrats want to redraw the districts strongly in their favor, and the Republicans go, "why of course, yes because...bipartisan!" ?

Kudos to the new KY gov. Gives me a fraction of a scintilla of a smidgeon of hope. And same for Ohio and the down twinkles on pot. I'm from the Buckeye state and glad to see it hasn't devolved into a total morass of stupidness.

I'd like to ask any members of the Horde who pray to send one up for me. I won't go into the details, but I need strength to deal with a very stressful situation and discernment to find a way out. Many thanks.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 04, 2015 06:34 AM (X6fMO)

173
Why, for the love of god, do republicans let the democrats ignore Article 2, Clause 4 of the Constitution?

"The Congress may determine the time of [choosing] the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same across the United States."

Elections need to be held on one day, with all voting occurring on that day, in person, unless there are compelling physical reasons for a written or proxy vote. No other method makes sense or is constitutional.

Posted by: jwest at November 04, 2015 08:52 AM (Zs4uk)

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>>>> I'm from the Buckeye state and glad to see it hasn't devolved into a total morass of stupidness....Give it time, my idiot brother still lives there.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at November 04, 2015 08:52 AM (iONHu)

175
In the interests of accuracy, the Michigan vehicle registration fee went up 20%, not 40%. Woopee
The GOP house vote was 55-52; senate was 20-18. Gov can't wait to sign. Our Betters. 7.3 cent rise in regular gas tax was added to 19 cents - diesel at +11 cents. (With automatic inflation increases). And oh yes, increasing the income tax credit. And oh yes, public transit gets a chunk.

178
The GOPe loses to the Teaparty in Kentucky. Ain't that a shame. Hope flourishes.

Posted by: maddogg at November 04, 2015 08:55 AM (xWW96)

179
Every time I hear some Republican candidate, Jeb in particular but there are others, talk about "fixing" Washington and/or the political process I cringe. Like our immigration systems, the problem is not that it is broken . It is that it is being vandalized by and out-of control Dem party bent on perpetual, permanent political power. An even greater problem is a media that enables this and huge swath of LIV's that don't care and gladly swallow the lies they are fed. Any Republican that is running on fixing the system is either naive, too scared of the MSM to speak the truth or is a willing accomplice of the vandals.

Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at November 04, 2015 08:56 AM (1BQGO)

180
Got to hear a dumb VA GOP delegate on the radio this morning talking about the GOPe's failures in NoVA.

He said all the districts are gerrymandered so running there is very difficult.

I kept wanting the radio host to ask how they are gerrymandered out of the GOP's reach if the GOP has had control of the state legislature for the past umpteen years. Makes no sense to me.

188
In other news, China is cheating on a CO2 climate pledge that they haven't even signed yet. They are burning 17% more coal than they told everyone according to the NYT. I ask, who could have seen that one coming?

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at November 04, 2015 09:02 AM (iONHu)

200
Drudge showing Heb! down to 4%. And here I just got a flying in the mail yesterday from his campaign about his proven conservatism. I'm actually starting to feel sorry for him. Well, just a little...

You'd rather have them in the air? And precisely what difference would a couple of thousand feet make?Posted by: Uncle Jed at November 04, 2015 08:44 AM (OmBeX)

I understand it is a matter of fall out and blast effect. A ground-burst muffles part of the blast in digging a giant pot-hole, and there is some interference in the propagation due to reflected blast interfering with the shock wave.

but, I am in no ways a specialist in this matter.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 04, 2015 09:18 AM (rnQcA)

205
MTF and Anna Puma, the USAF was flying Rivet Amber (a KC-135 variant) from Alaska to the States to repair a tail crack when she was lost over the Pacific. They never found her or her crew, and the best theory is that she disintegrated. The story still terrifies me, given what my husband does.

Posted by: pookysgirl at November 04, 2015 09:19 AM (K27gs)

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153 I don't really understand the PA results. In my county the Republcans won EXCEPT for the top of the ballot with SC judges. WTH?
Was it ads?
Was it Bob Casey robocalling for one of them?
Scratching my head here.
Posted by: @votermom at November 04, 2015 08:37 AM (cbfNE)

Many PA voters aren't voting top of the GOP ticket by default anymore. I know I didn't.